Media Edge

"Catastrophic Pentagon Cuts? Not Really...." (2 minutes)
After a $1 trillion cut over the next 10 years, the end of two wars, and accounting for inflation, we’d still spend more on the Pentagon than we did during most of Vietnam and the Cold War, and much more than we spend on education.

"Peak Moment" (28 Minutes)
Jump on that bike and power up the blender for your morning smoothie! Matthew Corson-Finnerty shows several machines he has developed while at Aprovecho Center in Oregon. Watch us pedal power an electricity generator, a grain mill, a blender, and a straw-chopper. Matthew notes there’s “considerable difference between the power that one person can generate, and [what's] generated by a fossil fuel engine or a coal-fired plant to provide electricity.” After watching these machines, what do you think?

"Daniel Ellsberg, PhD" (80 minutes)
Daniel Ellsberg is a former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S.
government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers. Ellsberg spoke in Sacramento about secrets, lies and ethics from the Viet Nam era through today’s WikiLeaks publications. His presentation was recorded by Media Edge.

"A Buffalo's Trail of Tears" (6 minutes)
A short video about the annual hazing of the last wild and free buffalo, by the Buffalo Field Campaign.

Details
Episode Number: 
409
Duration: 
1 hour 59 min
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Category: 
DCTV - Sponsored Programs
Disposition: 
DCTV Digital Library
Format: 
MPEG2 - MP4